Licensure, Certificates & Honors

Certificates

  • FHWA Balanced Mix Design (BMD) Case Studies Virtual Workshop: Moving Forward with Implementation, Virtual Webinar, 2022.

  • ITD Application and use of AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Software, Boise, ID, 2021.

  • Machine Learning and Molecular Dynamics Webinar, Virtual event, 2021

  • CAES Data Science Boot Camp, Virtual event, 2021

  • NIST 2020 Atomistic Simulations for Industrial Needs Workshop, Virtual event, 2020

  • CAES-INL C3 Summer Boot Camp, Virtual event, 2020

  • Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES) Affiliate – Idaho National Lab (INL), ID, 2017

  • NCAT Professor Training in Asphalt Technology for professional development, Auburn, AL, June 2015.

  • PCA Professor Workshop in Portland Cement Association for professional development, Skokie, IL, July 2014.

  • Center for Advanced Energy Studies Affiliate Status for Academic Year 2015-2016

  • Professional Engineer (PE), certified by the Idaho Board of Professional Engineers, Registration Number: 15792, Oct. 2013

  • Cyberinfrastructure for Atomistic Materials Science (CAMS) Summer School on Simulation of Complex Microstructure in Materials, FL, May 2013

  • Center for By-products Utilization (CBU) and National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE) Workshop on Smart Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure, Milwaukee, WI, Nov. 2012

  • Certificate of Appreciation as a Moderator for Proceedings of the COMSOL Conference 2012 Boston, MA, Oct. 2012

  • Green Concrete Performance Workshop, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, July, 2012

  • Engineer-In-Training (FE): EIT Certification (EIT/FE certified by the Maryland Board of Professional Engineers), Registration Number: 41440, Oct. 2011

  • Atlas/NIST Workshop on Photovoltaic Materials Durability, Gaithersburg, MD, 2011

  • 22rd NIST Computer Modeling Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, July, 2011

  • National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) Guest Researcher, Gaithersburg, MD 2008

  • High Performance Parallel Computing Boot Camp at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 2007

Honors and Awards

  • NIST Distinguished Associate Award for FY2013, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, 04/2014

  • Travel Fund Program Award, Cyberinfrastructure for Atomistic Materials Science (CAMS) Summer School on Simulation of Complex Microstructure in Materials, FL, 03/2013

  • Best Paper Award (top one over 260+ papers), Proceedings of the COMSOL Conference 2012 Boston, MA, 10/2012

  • NIST-ARRA Fellowship (Federal Level), ARRA Travel Fund Program Award, 07/2012

  • NIST-ARRA Fellowship (Federal Level), Awarded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Measurement Science and Engineering Fellowship Program (NIST-ARRA), 11/2010

  • Dean’s Pratt Fellowship from Virginia Tech for research and academic accomplishments, 08/2006

  • Excellent Student Scholarship, 1st Prize, Tsinghua University Guanghua Scholarship, 11/2004

  • Excellent Student Scholarship, 3rd Prize, Tsinghua University, 11/2003

  • 2rd Prize Award, the National ‘Challenge Cup’ Science & Technology Competition, P. R. China, 05/2001